Chapter 3: African American and The Criminal Justice SystemSlavery- Engrained in the culture of America- socially, politically, economically - Protected by the nation’s constitution & the supreme court- Slave codes: laws regulating slave behavior (think, act, believe)- Mastery of technique Slavery & religion- Used as a means of social control- African religious forbidden- Igbo, Yoruba, Ndebele, shona- Slave owners introduced distorted version of Christianity- Flip side: collective conscious & mechanism for unity The Post Slavery Era- Restrictions increased after American revolution- “three-fifths of a person”- Star spangled banner (1814…1931)- Emancipation proclamation (1863)o Freed only those slaves in the confederacy - 13th amendment (1865)o Abolished slavery nationwideo Created the “loophole” for MIPC- Reconstruction (1867-1877)o New social, political, economic landscape- Reconstruction act of 1867o States controlled by a military governor - Resistance to blacks being treated as equals- Jim Crowo Who was he? Thomas Dartmouth “daddy” rice (“Jump Jim Crow”)o Symbolically translated to the label for the social, political, and legal separation of whites and blacks in all aspects of life - Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) “separate but equal”- Separate car act (1890)- Plessy v. Louisiana